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the longest day
today the sun will appear to stand still as it hovers at it’s highest point as seen from the northern hemisphere.
and from this place, the sun will formally introduce summer. this introduction comes with a gentle reminder that these longer days will not last forever and from this place, minute by minute, the days will slowly wane until they are no longer apparent. then, as if the sun knows how hardening and consuming darkness can be for our spirit, it will appear from the opposite side. from this new place, the sun will formally introduce winter, but not without a gentle reminder that these dark days will not last forever. from this, the days will swell slowly until they are no longer distinguishable. then, as if the sun knows how hardening and consuming light can be for our spirit, it will appear again, bringing with it another reminder, that these bright days will not last forever.
I believe the sun will continue to do this until we no longer need reminding.
memorial day
People from a planet without flowers would think
we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
history repeating #3
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. -Garrison Keillor
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